Photoshop CS4 "program error"

I am running MAC OSX 10.5.8 on a g5 and our office recently updated to CS4. For the first week, things went smoothly, now Photoshop is producing an error. "Could not complete your request because of a program error." In order to do anything in PS after I get that error, I have to Force Quit. So far it hasn't effected any other CS4 programs. I have uninstalled photoshop, then reinstalled. It worked for a few days, then started again with the error message. We have 4 machines running CS4 in our office and 2 of the 4 are having the same issue. HELP PLEASE!!! very frustrating.

I am having the same problem doing something simple as selecting text, here is the text from the PSErrorLog.txt
I am running OSX 10.4.11
2009:08:05 10:15:20 : /Volumes/workarea/PS_11_Mac_Daily_Retail/20080919.r.488/photoshop/main/photoshop/xcode/.. /le/sources/ExifSupport.cpp : 3020 : REQUIRE failed
2009:08:05 10:15:20 : /Volumes/workarea/PS_11_Mac_Daily_Retail/20080919.r.488/photoshop/main/photoshop/xcode/.. /le/sources/ExifSupport.cpp : 3020 : REQUIRE failed
2009:08:30 00:37:31 : /Volumes/workarea/PS_11_Mac_Daily_Retail/20080919.r.488/photoshop/main/photoshop/xcode/.. /le/sources/ExifSupport.cpp : 3020 : REQUIRE failed
2009:08:30 00:37:31 : /Volumes/workarea/PS_11_Mac_Daily_Retail/20080919.r.488/photoshop/main/photoshop/xcode/.. /le/sources/ExifSupport.cpp : 3020 : REQUIRE failed
2009:08:30 00:49:37 : /Volumes/workarea/PS_11_Mac_Daily_Retail/20080919.r.488/photoshop/main/photoshop/xcode/.. /le/sources/ExifSupport.cpp : 3020 : REQUIRE failed
2009:08:30 00:49:37 : /Volumes/workarea/PS_11_Mac_Daily_Retail/20080919.r.488/photoshop/main/photoshop/xcode/.. /le/sources/ExifSupport.cpp : 3020 : REQUIRE failed
2009:08:30 01:05:42 : /Volumes/workarea/PS_11_Mac_Daily_Retail/20080919.r.488/photoshop/main/photoshop/xcode/.. /le/sources/ExifSupport.cpp : 3020 : REQUIRE failed
Haven't installed any plugin just what came with normal installation.
Anything would help tried deleted preferences.
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